Sentences with phrase «on body politics»

-- Silke Schmickl on body politics, video and the moving image at Beirut art fair 2014.

Raising questions on body politics and the systematic oppression of the body as an objectified entity, the artists in the exhibition dismantle and redefine patterns for self - expression.

The Phil Woolas fiasco should not blind us to one important fact: The influence of extreme Islamists on our body politics is increasing and ought to be diminished.

Will the economic uncertainty again put more pressure on body politic to do something for those people that are feeling the impact most acutely of that weaker growth prospect?

However rational the hoarder's strategy may appear in the moment, it has a terrible effect on the body politic over time.

How accurate was George Washington's belief that «slavery was a cancer on the body politic of America that could not at present be removed without killing the patient» [p. 158]?

I believe that the Republican Party is a blight on the body politic, I believe the Iraq war is immensely dishonorable, I believe that anyone who excuses torture is a villain, and I believe that the conduct of the current administration has been nothing short of criminal.

A hideous cancer on the body politic.

Not exact matches

He has produced a deep treatise on government debt, served as chairman of a world - spanning regulatory body, run Italy's central bank (while remaining coolly removed from the scandals and fracases of Italian politics) and made a pile of money working at Goldman Sachs — all without being pigeonholed as an academic, regulator or investment banker.

And by pinning his departure on his government's repudiation of transparency and accountability, Rathgeber has diagnosed the body politic and put himself on the right side of an issue at precisely the right time.

The remarkable preference for efficiency we see in the overwhelmingly Democratic student body at Yale Law School also sheds light on today's progressive priorities, which focus on identity politics, especially sexual identity.

There are elements of good sense in folk wisdom and popular religion, and what health remains in the body politic depends on this.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

But, as Professor Adebayo Adedeji of the UN Economic Commission on Africa recalled: «Three decades after independence our people continue to be excluded from critical and significant contribution to the ethics of the body politic.

In his reflections on theology and politics, Catholic theologian William T Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform — or should embody and inform — Christian political witness, His book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during thpolitics, Catholic theologian William T Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform — or should embody and inform — Christian political witness, His book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during thPolitics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1970s.

A pulling away on the left by large segments of the evangelical world would likely result in a merging of those segments with a conservative Protestant mainstream in a way that would have a major impact on the shape and internal politics of a number of church bodies.

It matters not whether we speak of the body of Christ or the body politic, for authority to be authority and not a form of domination or manipulation those who have it can not in its exercise rely on force and deception in a way that bypasses the liberty of those over whom it is exercised.

The presence in our body politic of such a party is the only means by which democracy can be saved from its present moral chaos, from the tyranny of entrenched interests, from the insolence of a predatory officeholding party system, and from the peril of a fascist dictatorship of big business, on the one hand, or of a communist dictatorship of the proletariat, on the other [December 31, 1932].

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

The idea that Nuns of any religion, can act outside of the body politic of that religion is ridiculous and shows a total lack of understanding on the part of the reporter.

Even when she's not playing Hannah Horvath, Dunham is known for her frank perspective on everything from politics to body image.

We absorb on a daily basis a litany of advise — advice on how to get fit, how to save for retirement, what to put in our bodies, how to keep our homes maintained, how to manage office politics, etc..

The reality of the situation in Palestine and its hinterlands - or rather, the closest approximation of reality one can make out in the thick fog of propaganda that flies from all sides - is damning of Israel's body politic, especially at points of peak interest such as air strikes on Gaza or Lebanon.

Plus, the two services generate complementary data, since Google Ads can give a campaign an idea of which messages are resonating broadly on a given topic, while Facebook can help show how the same effects are playing out in different slices of the body politic.

What unifies each contribution in this special edition, however, is not simply a focus on social media networks, but an implicit establishment, or recognition, of a new ontological plane of discussion on which politics can now occur: the digital - political, in which technology affects, and is in turn being affected by, the materials, bodies and politics of the citizens living within the state.

In an interview with the Daily News, Carranza shared his views on a variety of topics, including arming teachers («ridiculous»), divisive politics («it doesn't help») and immigration raids («over my dead body»).

Pluralistic democratic politics was constitutionally hardwired into the three traditional parties as a basis for securing the peace of the federal republic, whereas in this country the perpetual evolution of party structures means that there remains a representative body of opinion on both right and left within Labour and the Conservatives which tends to revert to dogma.

Yet when Farage is on top form he is still one of the most impressive politicians in the body politic.

In fact, this politics in place of law has gone on for so long, that the body of Federal case law is so convoluted and conflicting that now there there is precedent for nearly any outcome.

Cuomo has railed against Trump's immigration rhetoric, calling in on Monday a «poison» to the nation's tradition and history and «a cancer to the body politic.»

I have been primarily engaged in exploring the relationships between the media, communication and politics as a member of the Loughborough University Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) which has undertaken projects on behalf of a range of sponsoring bodies including the BBC Governors / Trust, Electoral Commission and The Guardian.

... The amount of money that is intended to affect the outcome of elections, but does not go directly to candidates has been growing like virus, with the same effect on the body of politics.»

The de facto king of Staten Island politics, now 85, eased himself out of a wheelchair on Saturday, bracing his frail body against the stage of the quaint New Dorp Moravian Church.

Jumping on the most negative interpretation of every piece of politicians» communication will drive debate to the lowest common denominator, leaving us with a body politic made up of those too anodyne to ever say anything of merit, let alone explore something controversial.

The Legg List was intended to confirm in cold print all the leaks, the anecdotes and revelations that have emerged over the last year and then allow the body politic to move on.

He disgraced himself in the last election cycle by financially backing the greatest blight on the NYS body politic.

Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics, David Lidington, the leader of the Commons, cited as an example the need to change a bill to take out a reference to an EU body serving as a regulator and replace it with a reference to a UK regulator.

Jon Cruddas, the Dagenham MP who narrowly missed out on the deputy Labour leadership last year, said the crisis required «radical shock treatment», adding: «The way to do that is to introduce proportional representation and a system of fair votes to replace the current arrangement under which a few thousand swing votes have an armlock around the body politic.»

That's all about as far as you can get from Blair - era European policy, but it does chime with the anti-corporatist view of Europe that's popular on the new Left of British politics, a body of opinion that means it makes perfect sense for Douglas Carswell to break bread with Owen Jones.

«Clearly politics is ruling the day and that's the nature of the speaker selection process, but I think both candidates should appreciate and begin to focus on the fact that regardless of the outcome this body needs to come together to do its charter - mandated duties.»

A faction of the umbrella body for Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, on Thursday insisted that the Elvis Donkemezuo - led bloc remains the authentic one, warning that its name should not be dragged into the politics of the ongoing ceasefire by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, and other militant groups in the region.

Nana Akufo - Addo said tribalism should not be entertained in our body politics but that which is based on policies.

Grant has served in politics since the late 1990s, representing the University District on the Council, as a Buffalo School Board member and Erie County legislator, serving as former chairman of the body.

In September California's Democratic governor, Gray Davis, crystallized the politics by signing the first state legislation permitting research on the embryonic cells, the master cells that can morph into any tissue in the body.

These questions have been exercising the minds of the American body politic, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that a «working group on disability in US presidents has been set up to answer them.

«On the contrary, by asserting in a prominent place (the journal Nature) that this non-existent risk needs solution, these papers subtract from the ability of the body politic to do sensible risk assessment to create sensible public policy.

Caryn Hartglass: You know the name of this show it's called It's All About Food, and I take that many ways on this program because so many things are related to food that we don't realize are even food, politics and all kinds of things, but there's more to the food that we eat and there's more to our health than what we put in our bodies as nutrition.

In this last recorded talk on CD, before his death, Dr. Lee covers many different areas of interest about natural hormone replacement therapy, including progesterone and estrogen's effects on the body, what causes hormone imbalances and how to restore balance, why saliva hormone level testing is so important, and the politics of medicine.

Election (Alexander Payne, 1999) A high - school election for student body president turns into a darkly comic satire on politics and sexuality in one of Alexander Payne's uproarious takedowns of Midwestern values.

Election Year: 1999 Director: Alexander Payne A high - school election for student body president turns into a darkly comic satire on politics and sexuality in one of Alexander Payne's uproarious takedowns of Midwestern values.